Editing Evening Standard (section)

===From 1827 to 2009===
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The newspaper was founded by barrister [[Stanley Lees Giffard]] on 21 May 1827 as ''The Standard''.<ref name=history>{{cite news |last=Brook |first=Stephen |title=A history of the London Evening Standard: seeing off rivals for 181 years |url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jan/14/history-london-evening-standard |newspaper=The Guardian |location= London |date=14 January 2009 |access-date=24 November 2018}}</ref> The early owner of the paper was Charles Baldwin. Under the ownership of [[James Johnstone (publisher)|James Johnstone]], ''The Standard'' became a morning paper from 29 June 1857. ''The Evening Standard'' was published from 11 June 1859. ''The Standard'' gained eminence for its detailed foreign news, notably its reporting of events of the [[American Civil War]] (1861–1865), the [[Austro-Prussian War]] of 1866, and the [[Franco-Prussian War]] of 1870, all contributing to a rise in circulation.<ref>''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' Eleventh Edition; Cambridge University Press, 1911, Vol. XIX, Mun to Oddfellows; Article on Newspapers, pp. 544–581.</ref> By the end of the 19th century, the evening edition eclipsed its morning counterpart.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

Both ''The Standard'' and the ''Evening Standard'' were acquired by <!-- Not a baronet until 1916. -->[[Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet|C. Arthur Pearson]] in 1904.<ref name=Griffiths234>{{cite book|last=Griffiths|first=Dennis|title=The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992|publisher=Macmillan|year=1992|page=234|location=London & Basingstoke|isbn=978-0-333-52984-3|edition=illustrated}}</ref> In May 1915, <!-- Not a baronet until 1921. -->[[Edward Hulton]] bought the ''Evening Standard'' from [[Davison Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler|Davison Dalziel]].<ref>Griffiths, ''Encyclopedia of the British Press'', p. 324</ref> Dalziel had bought both papers in 1910,<ref>Griffiths, ''Encyclopedia of the British Press'',  p.188</ref> and closed ''The Standard'', the morning paper, in 1916.<ref name=Griffiths234/> Hulton introduced the gossip column ''Londoner's Diary'', originally billed as "a column written by gentlemen for gentlemen".{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}

In 1923, [[Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook|Lord Beaverbrook]], owner of the ''[[Daily Express]]'', bought Hulton's newspapers, although he sold them shortly thereafter to the ''[[Daily Mail]]''{{'}}s owner [[Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere|Lord Rothermere]], with the exception of the ''Standard''. It became a staunchly Conservative paper, harshly attacking Labour in 1945 in a high-profile campaign that backfired. In the 1960s, the paper was upstaged by ''[[The Evening News (London newspaper)|The Evening News]]'', which sold more than 1&nbsp;million copies nightly.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} During the decade, the paper also began to publish the comic strip ''[[Modesty Blaise]]'', which bolstered its sales throughout the 1970s. ''The Evening Standard'' ceased publishing on Saturdays on 30 November 1974, when it still produced six editions daily.<ref>{{cite web |title=Where are they now, those Saturday People? |url=https://47shoelane.wordpress.com/galleries/terriboules |website=47shoelane |date=1 November 2015}}</ref> In the 1960s, the paper's political editor Robert Carvel was granted a morning briefing by prime minister [[Harold Wilson]] and it had its own correspondents in [[Paris]] and [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jenkins |first1=Simon |title=So it's goodbye to London's Standard, my old paper – and to the heart of democracy, local news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/30/so-its-goodbye-to-londons-standard-my-old-paper-and-to-the-heart-of-democracy-local-news |access-date=30 May 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=30 May 2024}}</ref>

In 1980, [[Northern & Shell|Express Newspapers]] merged the ''Standard'' with [[DMG Media|Associated Newspapers]]' ''[[The Evening News (London newspaper)|Evening News]]'' in a [[Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970|Joint Operating Agreement]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} The new paper was known as the ''New Standard'' until 1985, when Associated Newspapers bought out the remaining stake, turning it into ''The Standard''.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} In 1987 the ''Evening News'' was briefly revived to compete with [[Robert Maxwell]]'s ''[[London Daily News]]'', but was reabsorbed into ''The Standard'' later that year, after the collapse of Maxwell's paper.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} In 1988 the ''Evening Standard'' included the by-line "Incorporating the 'Evening News{{'"}}, which remained until the paper's sale in 2009.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}